Color Items in listbox

[BenJones]

hi guys
I am new to lazarus been using it over a month or so now and very much likeing it, and made a few little things, My main project has been a windows Hosts editor. Now I have this idea I like to do but I duno were to start or even if it can be done.

anyway my program loads the windows host file contents in to a listbox. the host files contains comments, some blank lines and hosts example below:

# This is a test host file

127.0.0.1 localhost

Ok what I like to do if possiable is color the line items text comments # with orange and the rest of the file in black
is this possiable thanks.

[Ocye]

If you change the style of your TListBox to lbOwnerDraw* the OnDrawItem event can be used for that purpose. All canvas operations are available including Brush.Color, Rectangle(), or whatever you like.

[BenJones]

Thanks I give that a try